As founder and artistic director, I am very proud of the work we, the Puerto Rican Institute of Art and Advocacy, Inc., have done since our founding back in 1994 in Warwick, Rhode Island.
Our interests and involvements with the community range from the education sector to folkloric art performances and culturally significant art exhibitions. We develop, plan, and execute projects that nurture creativity and inspire our future leaders in the arts. We work hand-in-hand with emerging artists, strengthening their creative ideas and fostering their personal development. We carry out events that demonstrate the cultural heritage of each region, and we love to produce projects for cultural and traditional appreciation. We’ve developed an apprenticeship program specifically to ensure that our tradition endures from generation to generation. We live art, we breathe creativity.
In these 27 years of hard work, we have brought our Indigenous music, Jibara music, Bomba music, Plena music, and Los Vejigantes throughout Rhode Island and New England.
We envision having our own building to label as our headquarters/offices as we continue to be part of the school solution and bring economic prosperity to our neighborhood and our state. We are Puerto Rico, and we show it with pride.
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The Puerto Rican Institute for Arts and Advocacy, (PRIAA), is a non-profit organization, founded in 1994, which works arduously to advocate for the Puerto Rican community, and Latinos in general. We strive to reach our communities with lessons to emerge them in a sense of pride of their cultural identity, their language, and at the same time acquire the commitment to maintain, develop, and transmit that pride generationally. Our advocacy directs through the arts and expressions to maintain the heritage of the Puerto Rican population. We advocate for the respect we deserve as American citizens who contribute to the social, political, economic, and cultural well being of the entire nation. We strive to extend our culture to other Latino nationalities, as well as other nationalities, as an integral part our own culture, in particular the Caribbean culture- creating from our culture a cornerstone of communication among our population which lets us feel identified and proud of our cultural values and morals; of our race, our language, and our idiosyncrasy; as a point of union and brotherhood.